Description
LZ4 before 1.9.2 has a heap-based buffer overflow in LZ4_write32 (related to LZ4_compress_destSize), affecting applications that call LZ4_compress_fast with a large input. (This issue can also lead to data corruption.) NOTE: the vendor states "only a few specific / uncommon usages of the API are at risk."
Published: 2019-10-14
Score: 8.1 High
EPSS: 1.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-7893 LZ4 before 1.9.2 has a heap-based buffer overflow in LZ4_write32 (related to LZ4_compress_destSize), affecting applications that call LZ4_compress_fast with a large input. (This issue can also lead to data corruption.) NOTE: the vendor states "only a few specific / uncommon usages of the API are at risk."
References
Link Providers
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00069.html cve-icon cve-icon
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-10/msg00070.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=15941 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/lz4/lz4/compare/v1.9.1...v1.9.2 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/lz4/lz4/issues/801 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/lz4/lz4/pull/756 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/lz4/lz4/pull/760 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/25015588b770d67470b7ba7ea49a305d6735dd7f00eabe7d50ec1e17%40%3Cissues.arrow.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/543302d55e2d2da4311994e9b0debdc676bf3fd05e1a2be3407aa2d6%40%3Cissues.arrow.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/793012683dc0fa6819b7c2560e6cf990811014c40c7d75412099c357%40%3Cissues.arrow.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9ff0606d16be2ab6a81619e1c9e23c3e251756638e36272c8c8b7fa3%40%3Cissues.arrow.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f0038c4fab2ee25aee849ebeff6b33b3aa89e07ccfb06b5c87b36316%40%3Cissues.arrow.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f506bc371d4a068d5d84d7361293568f61167d3a1c3e91f0def2d7d3%40%3Cdev.arrow.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0fb226357e7988a241b06b93bab065bcea2eb38658b382e485960e26%40%3Cissues.kudu.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4068ba81066792f2b4d208b39c4c4713c5d4c79bd8cb6c1904af5720%40%3Cissues.kudu.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r7bc72200f94298bc9a0e35637f388deb53467ca4b2e2ad1ff66d8960%40%3Cissues.kudu.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17543 cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210723-0001/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17543 cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html cve-icon cve-icon
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.04446}

epss

{'score': 0.02292}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T01:40:15.850Z

Reserved: 2019-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-17543

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-10-14T02:15:10.873

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:32:29.470

Link: CVE-2019-17543

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-07-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-17543 - Bugzilla

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